A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.

"A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life" by A. D. T. Whitney is a novel from the 1800's about a girl's eye-opening summer. We follow Leslie Goldthwaite and her cousin Delight during a period of change, as she begins to contemplate her definitions of beauty and reflect on what it means to be a woman. As she compares herself to others, the narrative follows along as she comes to her own conclusions about societal expectations and ideas of inner fulfillment, hinting at the ways new experiences can test our deeply held beliefs.